An industrial park near a border port in New Mexico has displayed the US Flag in a position lower than the display of the Mexican Flag.

The flags flying over Binational Avenue near the Santa Teresa Port of Entry have stirred up controversy with some people who pass through the area on a daily basis because the Mexican flag is higher than the American flag. (Sun-News photo by Shari Vialpando)

Rightly so there are a number of groups and people who are not happy about this.

“I don’t think the Mexican flag should be flown higher than the American flag,” said the 48-year-old naturalized American. “This is the American side and I just don’t think that’s right.”

The Verde Group of El Paso, owners of the industrial park, could not be reached for comment.

The Congressional Research Service on the U.S. Flag Code, Section 7, in part states: “No other flag should be placed above the United States of America” when flags of multiple countries are flown together. Later, the code states “When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flags should be of approximately equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace.”

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I found this story via The Stein Report via The Dustin Inman Society Blog. I find it sad to see businesses in our country honoring a foreign flag before our US Flag.